It's definitely true that Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my all-time favorite guitarists

Okay, Stevie Ray Vaughan’s tone was massive. There’s no myth there. But an entire industry has practically grown up around assisting players in replicating that monster of a sound, and I’d like to invest an installment of Myth Busters to look at srv guitar rig
 what you can achieve in this realm, and what you can’t. It had three Danelectro lipstick pickups. Stevie later added the famed topless hula-woman stick on the back of the guitar. This guitar often was used during "Life Without You", which was itself said to be written as a tribute to Charley Wirz. Lenny “The Main” aka “the Couldn’t Stand the Weather guitar” features a neck-through-body design (unlike any other guitars Stevie played), a two-piece maple body, ebony fretboard with a mother-of-pearl inlay that read “Stevie Ray Vaughan”, and EMG pre-amped pickups. During the recording of Couldn’t Stand the Weather music video the pickups were damaged, and soon after replaced with vintage Fender single-coils.